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Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 1:16 pm
Members of the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network
(the Network) held up green cards in show of support for the
proposal to form a collective organisation Hauora Taiwhenua
Rural Health Network on Saturday 1 May 2021.
During
the Network’s AGM at the National Rural Health Conference
in Taupō, the Network Board put forward the proposal to
form Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network and to transition
the Network’s functions and role to this new organisation
over a 12-month period.
More members turned up for
this AGM than ever before to show their support and have
their say on the future of the Network, and the resolutions
There s a just a general anxiety amongst already burnt out GPs in those areas, he said.
COVID-19 modeller from Te Pūnaha Matatini, Shaun Hendy, said people s lack of access to their regular doctor was a worry because it could make them more reluctant to get a test. If they re out of their home town they may not know where the testing centres are. And if they re out at the beach those testing centres might be a long way away, he said.
The big music festivals and concerts were a worry too. If a case did make it through isolation of quarantine and then a border worker picked it up and went to one of these events then that is a scenario where we could get wider spread, Professor Hendy said.